"When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like."

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"When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like."

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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."

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"I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'."

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"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."

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"Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing."

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"I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself."

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"There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them."

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"You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable."

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"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."

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"It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video."

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"All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult."

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"If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else."

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"You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could."

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"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."

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